Microsoft Wins Appeal on Overseas Data Searches - The New York Times

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"On Thursday, Microsoft won a surprise victory in one such legal battle against the government over access to data that is stored outside the United States.

In the case, the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit reversed a lower court’s ruling that Microsoft must turn over email communications for a suspect in a narcotics investigation stored in a Microsoft data center in Dublin. The case had attracted widespread attention in the technology industry and among legal experts because of its potential privacy implications for the growing cloud computing business, with implications for internet email and online storage, among other services."

Microsoft Wins Appeal on Overseas Data Searches - The New York Times